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For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the US has long hidden the damage and ignored victims. This explosive book reveals the extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.
Table des matières
Author's Note
Foreword by John W. Dower
Introduction
1 Japanese Weapons of Mass Destruction and the US Cover-up
2 Nuclear Warfare in Japan and the Marshall Islands
3 Okinawa: "The Junk Heap of the Pacific"
4 Military Herbicides, Vietnam, and Okinawa
5 Polluting with Impunity
6 Okinawa: Paradise Lost
Timeline: Environmental Contamination and Accidents on Okinawa (1947-2019)
7 Japan: Contamination, Nuclear Deals, and the Fukushima Meltdowns
8 Toxic Territories: Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Johnston Atoll
9 Toward Environmental Justice
Appendix: Contaminants
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
A propos de l'auteur
Jon Mitchell is an investigative journalist based in Japan and recipient of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award. An expert in the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), his scoops often top the front pages and TV news in Japan – and they have featured in reports for the US Congress. Author of four acclaimed Japanese books about Okinawa, in 2021, Mitchell's first English book, Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, was a winner in the Society of Environmental Journalists' annual awards. In 2023, he received Japan’s most prestigious journalism prize, the Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Journalism Award for public service.John W. Dower is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II.
Résumé
For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the US has long hidden the damage and ignored victims. This explosive book reveals the extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.
